Antitrisulca meam quam flamma cremarerat Arcem, Anteferenda Mihi Fabrica nulla fuit.

On S.t PAVL's Cathedrall represented by Mr DAN. KING.

Illustrious. Pile, ô that my Muse,
Amphien-like, could Life infuse
Into Thy Stones & make them dance
In Order, till They might advance
Into their ancient Seats, and rise
In Spires to re-salute the Skies.
What though [...] 7 Wonders have
In their own Rubbish found a grave:
Consuming Time did scarce amiss
So long as He dispens'd with This:
For whilst He PAULS upheld alone,
The Sc [...] re-flourisht in This One.
Haile, Sacred Ruines, which remaine,
And still a Majestie retaine
You in your mouldring Relicks show
GOD's speciall presence once below:
So as blest Angels might admire
The Model of Their own Great Quire.
Nor were it an Offence to call
Those Angels to thy hastning Fall,
Wee only can fit Poets be
To grace Thee with an Elegie
And to bewaile a Silence there
Where Neices turn'd each Sense to Eare.
Religions Ark, a Trophy rais'd
By Zeale where God was rightly prais'd
Cheer'd by Thy former Splendor must
We now be blinded with Thy Dust?
Ah that Thy Lead should fall to be
AWinding sheet to Faith and Thee!
To view Thee once more in Repaire,
O Theater of ROYALL Care!
To re-exalt Thy glorious Name.
And wash out our Augaan Shame.
A Floud should issue from our Eyes
Which might Alpheus equalize
Time that devours the World & brings
A Change on all inferiour Things,
May see an Age in greater Hast
Re-build Thee then this lay'd Thee wast,
And finde a Holy Pleasure in
Such an Attonement for This Sin.
However let Us duely mourn
To view Thee wasting to Thy Urn.
And if Time should not Thee restore.
Thou liv'st in Figure as before.
By ONE Who joyning Names thru Things.
Shares in Renown with other KINGS.

Threnodia Adis PAVLINA De Seipsâ.

A SPICE Qualis eram primo perfecta Decore,
Vertice sublimi visa ferire Polum,
Culinine nec tantùm Coelo, sed proxima Cultu,
Coelicolae nostros dum stupûere Choros:
Dives Opum, sancta Ara Precum, Pietatis Asylum,
Florida Pace, Fide pura, dicata DEO.
Concipe Mente meum Decus esset quale secundum
Contractum Senio cùm positura Situm;
Pyramis à Flammis cùm surgeret icta Trisulcis,
Auxiliatrices REGE ferente Manus:
Propitio Sumptu renovatâ ut Matre, minorum
Natarum Series tota. Venusta foret.
Illa Ego Quae quondain sublimbus alta Columnis,
Arcnum adornatis concamerata Tholis,
In Coelum. Spirâ coepi tendisse stupendâ,
At (que) Minusterijs aptior esse sacris;
Indè, Vetustatis devitatura Ruinas,
Cum Mundo poteram continuâsse Dies.
Maxima Christicolae mansissem Gloria Mundi,
Invida & in nostras Roma fuisser Opes;
Ipsa Cathedrali supefassem splendida Formâ,
PETRE, tuám (que) Solo, MARCE, tuám (que) Salo;
At (que) Reformatum tune Relligione Nitorem
Nactâ, Me summus conclecorâsset Honos.
Sed mihi Seditio nocuit, quae Prodroma Lapsûs,
Saevior ac ipso Tempore, Livor atrox.
Cum sint Arma. Tibi tantùm Coelestia, PAULE,
Militis Excubijs non eget Ista Domus:
Antè Decora fui, jam Squallida tota recumbo;
Est sacer Hinnitus quô Sacer Hymnus erat!
Si Fluvio Stabulum Iavit Tyrinthius Heros,
Victor Aquis, quandò Dextra negabat Opem;
Excordes Nati, cur nunc in Funere Matris
Conspicitis siccis Rudera nostra Genis?
O, si versa forent in salsum Lumina Rivum,
Elueret Sordes Rivus ut Iste meas!
Involvo Lodice mei Sacra omnia Plumbi!
Urna priús Magnis, jam rudis Urna Mihi!
Laetor at aeratis quod sim victura Figuris,
Ceu Volucris Syrijs quae reparata Rogis,
lllius Auxilio, Qui non REX Nomine tantum,
Sed Qui, par summis REGIBUS, edit Opus.
Quanto Ego Flebilior, tantò Praesentior audi,
Diruit, aedificat nam tua Dextra, DEUS!
TU miserere Mei, mea TU demortua Saxa,
Verus ut Amphion, mox animare potes:
Dicta Dies, Scriptis promissa sidelibus, adsit,
Cùm Favor in charae Saxa SIONIS erit!
B1E2N3E8 Ʋ 6O5L4 Ʋ 7S9
  • Ao Dn̄i 610 Ethelbert K. of Kent built this Church & de­dicated it to St Paule.
  • Ao 670 Erkinwald the 4 Bishop encreased it Afterward K. Ethelstā & others enlarged its Revenues.
  • In the time of W. ye Con the old Fabrick roofed with wood was burnt.
  • Ao 1094 Mauritius BP of London began to build it as it now is viz. the Body of the Church & North & South Crosse Isles
  • After Maur: the Building was continued & ye Steeple finished Ao 1225. The Quire finised Ao 1240
  • Ao 1237 St. Faiths begun to be builded
  • Ao 1315 The Spire was taken downe and made new.
  • Ao 1444 the Steeple burnt with Lightning. Ao 1462 it was repaired againe.
  • Ao 1501 the Steeple burnt down to ye vpper Roofe by Lightning Ao 1566 the Roofe repaired againe.
  • A futher Repaire intended by K. James Ao 1633 begun to be repaired within and without as now it is by King Charles.
SIR

Your Merit in these Verses & my Gratitude for your Civilities mov'd me to joyne your Pictures to this Peece.

[portrait]

Who would also present all our other Cathedralls in this Forme, if encouraged by Such as your honoured SELFE.

DAN: KING
The West end of St Paules
The North View of St Paules Church.
The South View of St Paules Church as it was when ye Spire was standing.
The South View of St Paules Church.
The East end of St Paules
The prospect of the Parochial church of St Faith from West to East under St Paules
The prospect of the Orientall part of the Church
The prospect of the Quire of St Paules Cathedrall.
The interior prospect of the Body of the Cathedrall Church of St Paules from West to the quire.
The Planographie[?] of the parochiall Church of St Faith
  • The BODY of St FAITHS CHVRCH
  • Part of the same Church called the Chappell of Iesus.
  • The Butreyes belonging to the Vpper and Orientall part of the Cathedrall Church or quire of St Paules.
  • [...]t Iohn Bap [...] Chapp
  • 1. Will Lam [...].
  • 2. Hary Kytson.
  • 3. [...] Abni.
  • 4. Tho: Hind.
  • 5. Tho [...].
  • 6. Will [...]bam.
  • 7. [...]: Huntte.
  • 8. Alin: Iohnson.
  • 9. Will: W [...]t.
  • 10. Will: Lily.
  • 11. Iohn: Good.
  • 12. Iohn: B [...].
  • 13. [...]ry: Robinson.
  • 14. Georg: Whilgist.
  • 15. Iohn: and Fran A [...]ly.
  • 16. Rich: [...] nams of severall Tombs in [...] Faiths under St Paules.
The Planographie of the Cathedrall Church of St Paules
  • South
  • West
  • North.
  • East

  • The Body of the Church
  • St Gregories C
  • the quire
  • St Marys Chapp.
  • 1. The porticue.
  • 2. The W. dore.
  • 3. The Turret.
  • 4. The Convocation house.
  • 5. The Little North dore.
  • 6. The Little S dore.
  • 7. The great N dore.
  • 8. The great S dore.
  • 9. Tho: Kemps Chapp. By of London Ao 65.
  • 10. The Tombe of Iohn Beauchamp.
  • 11. The Chapter house.
  • 12. The Stepes to the quire.
  • 13. The quire dore.
  • 14. The Tombe of Io: Donne Deane of this Church.
  • 15. The Mon: of Io: Calletiy Deane of Paules.
  • 16. The Mon: of Will Hewet Ao 1590.
  • 17. The Mon: of Will Cokayn Eq: aurat.
  • 18. The Mon: of Mic: Baco [...].
  • 19. The Tombe of Iohn Newcourt Ao 1425.
  • 20. The To: of Valentine Carey Ao [...].
  • 21. The Tom: of Brabazon de Od [...] Ao 149 [...]
  • 22. The To: of W. Rythym.
  • 23. The T: of Sym: Edolph.
  • 24. The T: of Ri: Lichfield.
  • 25. The T: of Io: Acton. The Mo: of Christo:
  • 26. Hatton Kof ye Garter.
  • 27. The To: of E [...]sta Fauconbridge L: Ep Ao 1225.
  • 28. The To: of Hen: Wengham BP LoA 1258.
  • 29. The To: Hen: Lacie E of Lincolne Ao 1406.
  • 30. The T: of Rob: Braybroke BP of Lon. Ao 1404.
  • 31. The To: of S Erckenwold.
  • 32. The Mo: of Alex: Noell deane of this Ch: A 1621.
  • 33. The Mo: of Tho: Heneage Ep Aur Ao 1494.
  • 34. The To: of Baff Hengham.
  • 35. The To: of Sym: Barley K. of ye Garter.
  • 36. The Mo: of Io: of Gaunt [...]t Duke of Lan: Ao 1399.
  • 37. The Mon: of Will: Herbert E: of Penbro Ao 1569.
  • 38. The To: of Io: Holins.
  • 39. The To: of Io: Chish [...]ll.
  • 40. The To: of Roff Niger BP of Lon: Ao 1542.
  • 41. The Mo: of Io: Mason Ep aur Ao 1566.
  • 42. The Mo: of Will Aubrey.
  • 43. The To: of Sebbe K: of ye Sax Ao [...].
  • 44. The T: of Etheldred K: of ye Sax. Ao 1017.
  • 45. The Tom: of Tho: Erore.
  • 46. The To: of Will Green.
  • 47. The To: of B: son of Hugh B of Lon:
  • 48. The High Alter.
  • 49. St Gregories Chapp.
  • 50. St Dunstans Chapp.
LONDON.
  • THAMESIS FLVVIVS.
  • South worke.
D. King delin. et Excudit Ao 1553.
D: Loggan fec:
  • 1. St Paules.
  • 2. Whitehall.
  • 3. Suffolk house.
  • 4. York house.
  • 5. Sauoy.
  • 6. Somerset house.
  • 7. Arundel house.
  • 8. St. Clements.
  • 9. St. Dunstans.
  • 10. The Temple.
  • 11. St Brides.
  • 12. St. Andrew.
  • 13. Barnards Castle.
  • 14. Queene hith.
  • 15. St. Pulchers.
  • 16. Three Cranes.
  • 17. The Waterhouse.
  • 18. The Stillyard.
  • 19. Bowchurch.
  • 20. Guild hall.
  • 21. St. Michaels.
  • 22. St. Lawrence Poultney.
  • 23. Fishmongers hall.
  • 24. The Old Swan.
  • 25. The Bridge
  • 26. Gray Church.
  • 27. St. Dunstan in ye East.
  • 28. Billingsgate.
  • 29. Custome house.
  • 30. The Towne.
  • 31. Towne wharfe.
  • 32. St. Katherines.
  • 33. St. Olaffe.
  • 34. St. Mary Overies.
  • 35. Winchester house.
  • 36. The Globe.
  • 37. Beare Garden.
  • 38. The Swan.
  • 39. Harrow on ye hill.
  • 40. Hamsted.
  • 41. Hygate.
  • 42. Hackney.
  • 43. [...]outne [...].
  • 44. Ell Ships.
  • 45. Gallyfustie.
  • 46. Coale harbour.

TEMPLA sunt DEI Pa­latia, Bonita­tis divinae Tribunalia, Misericordiae AEraria, Miser­orum Asyla; ubi Sacra

NVMINIS Celebratio est Imitatio Angelorum & AEternitatis Praeludium, Haec ergò temerare, temerarium,

Mat.21. 13 :

The Citty of London (as some write) had its first Rise from Brute the Grand-child ot AEneas, 70 years after ye Destruction of Troy, whence (say they) it was called Troy­nobant or New Troy so called when Caesar entred into Britaine. 54 yeares before ye Birth of Christ. The name London derived (as some say) from Lud a British King, who enlarged it: Others from Liban-dian. or Dianas Temple because ye chief Temple therein was dedicated to Diana on whose Ruines St Paules was built by Ethel­bert of Kent: It was walled 3 miles in compasse Ao Chri. 306 by Helen the Mother of Constantine.

In the time of H. 3d. it had six faire Gates.

The Tower builded by VV. the Conquerour Ano 1078

At ye Dissolution of Monasteries it had 17. Religious houses within the Walles, and 12 without.

The number of Churches in ye Citty of London wthin the Walles 99, in the Suburbs 31. Anno 1658.

This Citty hath Longitude 24° 20′. Lat 51° 32′

Sould by Iohn Ouerton at the White Horse without Newgate at the Corner of the little old Baly neere the Fountaine Tauern

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